Goodwin and Morehouse Lee are the two sons of Chinese immigrants who grew up in America. Goodwin and Morehouse are now adults charged with taking care of their parents. Their parents live alone but are getting frailer and refuse to live in the local nursing home, which serves Western food every day. Goodwin and Morehouse, both struggling financially, decide to renovate a house they can buy for almost nothing, but the house is in complete disrepair; it's a big job. They search for shortcuts to save money. Morehouse sends Goodwin to find industrial-sized dumpsters where they can dispose of their construction waste, so as to avoid paying for disposal themselves. Goodwin hunts around the city, settling on the third dumpster he finds as large and secluded enough. When Goodwin returns, he finds Morehouse has hired undocumented workers under the table, and he protests that it's unethical to underpay workers to clear asbestos from the attic. Morehouse waves him away. When Goodwin and Morehouse's parents come to visit, Morehouse tries to sell them on the house, but both seem nervous and reluctant to move into the house alone. Their father trips over a toolbox and falls on his face. While Morehouse calls an ambulance, Goodwin invites his parents to move in with him, all the while wishing he could be as selfish as Morehouse.